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The Key Ingredients of Personality Traits

Year: 2013

Type: article

Abstract: The trait and social cognitive perspectives are considered disparate approaches to understanding personality. We suggest an integrative view in which three elements derived from the social cognitive perspective (i.e., situations, behaviors, and explanations [SBEs]) form the basis of personality traits. Study 1 demonstrated strong associations between traits and SBEs across the Big Five dimensions. Studies 2 through 7 tested the discriminative validity, internal structure, and unique contributions of the individual components of SBEs. Studies 8 and 9 demonstrated that the strong associations between traits and SBEs generalize to different cultures. The present work suggests that SBEs may be a universal folk psychological mechanism underlying personality traits.

Source: Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin

DOI: 10.1177/0146167213505871

Authors: Yu Yang, Stephen J. Read, Thomas F. Denson, Yiyuan Xu, Jin Zhang, William C. Pedersen

Institutions: China Europe International Business School, University of Southern California, UNSW Sydney, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, University of Hawaii System, Tsinghua University, California State University, Long Beach

Language: English

Topic: Personality Traits and Psychology

Subfield: Clinical Psychology

Field: Psychology

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W2089656798

FWCI: 2.967

Cites: 54

Cited by: 67

Related to: 10